Legendary baseball columnist and MLB Network analyst Peter Gammons quipped that Alex Rodriguez “is like the Marathon bombers” on ESPN Radio while talking about A-Rod’s shenanigans on Wednesday that included storming out of his arbitration hearing and railing against commissioner Bud Selig on WFAN.

“I’ve had people with the Yankees say this to me: He wants to blow up the world,” the 68-year-old Gammons said of Rodriguez, who is fighting a 211-game suspension handed down for alleged PED use.

“He’s like the marathon bombers. He’s going to get them.”

Gammons apologized on Twitter later in the day.

@pgammo No worries. My beef is with the overall culture of demonization of guys like A-Rod. You've more than earned the right to blow a comp

This further goes to what I said about the New York press. Blew Gammons comment out of context. Look how he apologized on his twitter account. He said he talked to someone in the YANKEE ORG who said he wanted to blow up the world and Gammons used a poor analogy. Peter has never disrepected Alex and yet he does not defend everything he does. He acts as a proper journalist discussing the matter without attacking someone personally.

Bud Selig created this and now he wants to come out and destroy, degrade and tarnish every single player that helped him achieve his goal 20 yrs ago to prosper baseball again in America? Bud Selig is so dirty and he knows it but attacking the guys that he created is not going to save him. Selig didn't only turn a blind eye. He put the Mcnamee's in the clubhouses to lure, tempt and get these guys to take whatever has a chance of getting them to hit balls 500 feet. Arod is guilty- we all know it- but Bud Selig even more so!

@Barry Danks exactly . Selig made a mockery of the record books . He had players complaining about the juicers but just ignored them even as they looked more like WWE bodies then baseball players , Now he wants to be the good guy .

It was poorly worded and readers keep missing the line where he said the YANKEE people said Arod wanted to blow up the world. He didnt say it he just poorly compared it to the marathon bomber which i will admit was insensitive to the people who suffered from the tragedy.

@fafa1234 you are right. ! big crappy is just as dirtry but a hero. that's why the Mitchell report was hidden. Mitchell worked for the red sox. crappy, Ramirez, kapler, varitek, that nut that wears a c on his uniform. there were many red sox on that list./ tainted world series. and gammons, you are a disgrace.